ST. PETERSBURG, July 31. /TASS/. A mansion in central St. Petersburg in which the families of renowned Russian noblemen Naryshkin and Dolgorukov lived at various points in time will be put up for ...

Catherine II, or Catherine the Great , (ruled 1762 Ü1769) brought European neoclassical art and architecture to Russia, and French culture and language dominated the life of the nobility and the ...

He is a co-author, with Irina Borogan, of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB and The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of ...